Feeder for cigarette-machines.



No. 709,920. Patented Sept. 30, I902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TRAUGOTT MOESINGER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FEEDER FOR CIGARETTE-MACHINES.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,920, datedSeptember 30, 1902. Application filed March 21, 1900- Renewed March 6.1902. Serial No- 96,970. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TRAUGOTT MOESINGER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Feeders for Cigarette- Machines, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to feed devices for feeding tobacco, moreespecially for use in connection with cigarette-machines; and myinvention consists of certain means whereby to secure a more regular anduniform delivery of the particles of tobacco than heretofore, as fullyset forth hereinafter and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which Figure 1 is a diagrammatic plan illustrating the manner offeeding tobacco to the delivery-belt. Fig. 2 is a plan illustrating thearraugement of the feed and delivery belts and connected parts of myimproved machine. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig.

4 isa detail side view looking in the direction of the arrow 2, Fig. 2.Fig. 5 is a detail side view in part section looking-in the direction ofthe arrow 5, Fig. 2; and Fig. 6 is a plan illustrating the form of chuteemployed in delivering the tobacco to a curved moldingchannel.

In the feeding devices most commonlyemployed in the endeavor to conveyto the molding or Wrapping devices of cigarette machines a regular anduniform supply of cut tobacco it is common to make use of means forpicking and distributing the tobacco and to deposit as regularly aspossible the material thus picked and distributed upona traveling beltor belts, from which the tobacco passes to the traveling wrapper ormolding devices. In such cases the tobacco is deposited upon a travelingbelt in a line practically parallel to the axis of the rollers'aroundwhich I the belt passes, and as a result the tobacco tends to fall fromthe end of the belt in masses rather than in particles, so that the feedor supply to the belt or molding devices is not of the desiredregularity or uniformity.

I have found that I can secure a uniform delivery of the particles oftobacco from the traveling belt by first depositing the tobacco upon thebelt in lines diagonal to the belt or at an angle to the axes of therollers around which the belt passes. Thus, referring to Fig. 1,assuming that A is an endless traveling bolt, the tobacco is picked andfed as uniformly as possible onto the surface of the belt upon a line mat an angle to the ends of the belt, and when it is carried to the edge7 from which it is delivered to the molding and Wrapping devices, thereis no tendency to fall from this edge in masses extending across thebelt; but, on the contrary, the separate particles are thus deliveredregularly and uniformly at a speed proportioned to the speed of travelof the belt. In order to facilitate the delivery of the particles and toseparate and prevent them from clinging together to any extent whatever,I prefer to combine with the delivery end of the belt a picking-rollerB, having teeth 2 and driven at a speed slightly in excess of the belt.This picking-roller, however, while desirable, is not absolutelynecessary, as a much more uniform delivery than usual can be effected bydelivering the material at an angle to the ends of the belt and thendischarging it from one of these ends, as described. In carrying outthis mode of distributionI may combine the traveling belt with variousappliances for operating it and for delivering the material thereto.

As shown in the remaining figures of the drawings, the belt A is carriedby rollers a a, arranged with their shafts turning in a frame 0, andupon the shaft 3 of the roller a is a gear-wheel 4, the teeth of whichengage those of a gear 5 upon the shaft 6' of the roller B. The shaft 3is driven through the medium of gears 7 8 9 from a worm 11 upon a shaft12, the said worm engaging the worm-wheel 10, which is secured to turnwith the gear 9.

The material is fed to the belt A from an endless traveling belt D,supported by rollers d d, turning in a frame E, the shaft 13 of thetobacco picked from the end of the belt D and partially separated by theact of the picker-roll F, which moves more rapidly than the belt, arestill further separated by the act of the picker-roll F, and from thelatter they pass through achute G onto the belt A, the said chute, thedelivery end of which is parallel to the axes of the roller d, being atan angle to the axes or axis of the roller a, as shown in Fig. 2.

The shaft of the roller F is driven by a pulley 19, Figs. 4 and 5, whichmay be connected by a belt with another pulley at any suitable place onthe machine.

The shaft is driven by means of bevelgears from the shaft 3, Figs. 4 and5.

Above the rollerd is a presser-roll e, which is driven from the shaft ofthe roll F through the medium of gears 21 22, Fig. 4. There is also apresser-rollf above the roll a, and this rollfis driven through themedium of gears 25 26 27, Figs. 2 and 5, from the shaft (5 of thepicker-roll B.

Below the delivery end of the belt A-that is, below the rollers a B-is achute H, the mouth of which may be straight in some instances, but whichas shown is curved, (see Figs. 5 and 6,) so that the material deliveredfrom the belt A will pass through the curved mouth a: of the chute ontoa disk 11', and between the edge of a disk G, eccentric to the disk H,and the side of an endless traveling belt J, which bears on the edge ofthe disk H, so that the tobacco is gradually carried on between theconverging approaching sides of the disk G and the belt J andcompressed. I do not, however, here make any claim to the features ofthis device for receiving and compressing the tobacco, as it forms thesubject of a separate application, Serial No. 8,494.

Without limiting myself to the precise construction and arrangement ofparts shown, I claim as my invention 1. In a tobacco-feeder, thecombination of an endless con veying-belt and means for feedingparticles of tobacco thereto upon a line at an angle to the delivery endof the belt, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination in a tobacco-feeder, of an endless traveling belt,means for feeding, tobacco thereto, at an angle to the delivery end ofthe belt, and a picker-roll arranged opposite said end, substantially asset forth.

The combination in a tobacco-feeder, of an endless traveling belt, meansfor feeding tobacco thereto, at an angle to the delivery end of thebelt, a pickera-oll arranged opposite said end, and a chute arrangedbelow the delivery end of the belt and provided with a curved mouth,substantially as described.

4. The combination in a tobacco-feeding machine, of an endless travelingdeliverybelt, and a feed-belt arranged above the delivery-belt at anangle thereto, and an intermediate chute, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a delivery-belt and a feed-belt at an anglethereto, and a pickerroll opposite the end of the feed-belt,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

TRAUGO'IT MOESINGER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. FOSTER, J. J. MCCARTHY.

